Universalist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Universalist Church is a historic building located in Mitchellville, Iowa, United States. The congregation was organized in 1868 with a membership of thirty-five people.”
Wikipedia article Universalist Church (Mitchellville, Iowa), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 208 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 420 4th St., Mitchellville, 50169
When was it listed? September 2005
Category. building
Township. Beaver township
National Register reference number. 05000253 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Universalist Church in 2017, burning about 90 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90 acres	Iowa Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Universalist Church: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Perkins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this property

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mitchellville, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2022: 10 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Mitchellville	$50,000	Three mobile home units were damaged, all three with roof damage and one with damage to a wall. In addition, several trees were down.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Mitchellville	$25,000	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Mitchellville	$25,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Mitchellville	$20,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Mitchellville	$15,000	no account filed
June 2008	Flash Flood	Mitchellville	$5,000	On I-80, four inches of water was on the interstate east of the east mix master.
June 2002	Hail	Mitchellville	$5,000	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Mitchellville	$5,000	no account filed
May 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Mitchellville	$5,000	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Mitchellville	$3,000	no account filed
April 2006	Hail	Mitchellville	$2,000	no account filed
March 2022	Hail	Mitchellville	-	Report from mping.
June 2017	Hail	Mitchellville	-	Local fire department reported lots of quarter to golf ball sized hail near the Highway 65 exit along I-80.
June 2002	Hail	Mitchellville	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Mitchellville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Polk County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000253 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Polk County	All 208 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.